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W. GASKILL. SETTING UP AND TENSION 00MB FOR KNITTING MACHINES.

Patented June 7, 1870.

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WILLIAM GASIIILL, GE CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 104,0l4, dated June 7, 1870.

IMPROVEMEHI-INYSET'I'INQUP AND TENSION COMES FOR KNITTING-MACHINES.

. The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making 5m ofthe same I, WILLIAM G'ASKILL, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Heel- 7 Forming Attachment for Knitting-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Nata-re and Objects of the Invention. This invention relates-to an improved construction and combination of combs, to facilitate the knitting by machinery of a sock or stocking having a smooth and well-rounded heel, free from the customary inconvenient and unsightly ridge along the tread of the heel and also free from the customary objectionable hanging loops along said ridge.

General Description with Reference to the Drawing.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, representing a portion of a knitting-machine containing a partially-completed stocking. v

Figure 2 shows the same work, nearer completion.

Figure 3 sh'ows my separable comb detached from the work.

Figure 4 shows onehtdf of my divided or outer I heel-comb with one of adjustable wings.

Figure 5 represents a customary tubular ma-' chine-knit stocking before closure of the seams. V Figure 6 is a similaerepresentation of a stocking such as I produce; that'is to say, with a capped and rounded heel and seamless sole,--

A, B, O, and D represent portions of the bed, the carriage, the yarn-gnide,' and the crank of a tubular knitting-machine. I

G is a narrow comb of about-sixteen hooks, g,

and having, near its lower portion, an orifice, g, for the brick}, of a suitable weight, somewhat less than that used for an ordinary machine-knitheel-flap A :IE-is my dividedor louter heel-comb, having. two separate and similar wings, J J, armed with an equal number of customary hooks, jj', and capable of being slid out, or in in a piece, K, which forms the'head or upper portion of a plate, K M, called by;

me the T-plate, and of being fixed to any specific adjustment by means of screwsflc 10', which, for that purpose, pass through slots, L L, in said wings.

The stem M of the T-plate has a slot, m, to receive the set-screw N, which unites it with the head K of the T-plate, yet permits its vertical adj ustment to enable its orifice m to receive, at the proper stage of the operation, the same hook I, which has been engaged in the orifice g of the comb G.

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of the customary heel-flap.

For this purpose I employ the narrow comb G, al-

ready described, which, being placed between the jack-wires in the usual manner of machine-combs, and the proper number of needles left up, about fifteen for a gen'ts' medium sock, I engage the yarn over the comb and needles bya stroke of the carriage in the way familiar to machine-knittersfor setting up a heel, and, having secured the .requisite'tension, by engaging: the weighted hook I in the orifice g, I pr0- seed to knit the cap to a length equal to the contemplated width of lateral projection .X X of the full heel-flap.

Ithen introduce the additional needles, twelve on each side for a gents medium, and having introduced the additional comb I, I engage the yarn over said additional comb and needles, introduce the hook P into the orifice m of the T-plate, add an additional weight (not shown), and complete the formation of the heel-piece precisely as in ordinary machine-knitting, and, when the proper length is attained, join said heel-piece to the -uncast-=otf or front side of the toe, and proceed to knit clear around for the leg inthe usual manner of tubular knitting.

To adapt the divided, comb I for use with any particular size of stocking,lthe wings J J are either separated or approximated until thespace between them corresponds with the width ofthe rank of needles employed on the cap piece, and the stem M is, at the sametime, adjusted up or down until its orifice an is opposite the orifice g' of the comb G, so that the same hook may engage both.

The length of the full-width portion H inf the heelflap should fall short; of the customary machine-knit .heel by a distance equal to half the width. of the cap.

In practice, I knit the cap with twelve and the portion H with fourteen rotations of the crank for a gents medium sock.

; Claims.

I claim as my invention- 1. The outer heel cOmb I, composed of the cen tral perforated plate K M m m separable, and adjustable, as. described, and two adjustable wings or series of books, J j L J j L substantially as described;

2. In combination with the-above, the domb G g g, the whole so constructed that the same weightcan be made available for both combs, substantially as shown and set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my GEO. H. KNIGHT, James H. LAYMAN. 

